98 clients and printing issues.

[Stefan]

I am having some issues with intermittent printers with the clients hooking
into win2k TS. From what I have read in previous posts the RDP client is
supposed to automatically hookup the local printers. It has happened with
some clients but others I have had to go into the printers and manually
attach the printer to the tsport created by the session. My problem comes on
some stations where the TSPort is not created so I am not allowed to hookup
the printer. Any ideas?

Today we moved a Hp2300 that had been working fine to the USB port to use
the other port for a dot matrix printer, now the dotmatrix attaches fine,
but I cannot get the server to see the HP at all, does the RDP client
support USB printers?

 

[Cláudio Rodrigues]

If you are using the latest client, yes. There is a registry entry that you
may need to change on the CLIENT side to get USB printers to work. Q302361.
Of course if the printer is NOT supported natively by Windows 2000, you
would need the drivers on the TS. The issue is this is NOT recommended at
all...

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[Stefan]

I changed the printer over to a secondary printer port and it works great.
Is there a way to program these printers into a profile so they are attached
the same way each time?

Stefan....